The 30-member delegation of the New Party in Taiwan, headed by Chairman Yok Mu-ming, left Nanjing for Dalian Friday afternoon.

Before boarding the plane, Yok and his entourage were met and given a banquet by Luo Zhijun, secretary of the Nanjing municipal committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Earlier on Friday, the delegation visited the Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution, and offered condolences to the Chinese victims who were killed in the Nanjing Massacre, an atrocity committed by invading Japanese troops in December 1937 during World War II.

During his stay in Nanjing, Yok called on all the Chinese compatriots to draw lessons of history, be united and make concerted efforts to promote peace, prosperity and reunification of the motherland.

He also urged the Japanese militarist and rightist forces to repent their wartime crimes and take history as a mirror.

Yok and his entourage arrived in Nanjing from Guangzhou Thursday afternoon and were received by Li Yuanchao, secretary of CPC's Jiangsu Provincial Committee in the evening.

Their eight-day mainland tour, called "a journey of the Chinese nation", was paid on the 60th anniversary of China's victory in the resistance war against Japanese aggression.

After Dalian, the third-leg of the tour, the delegation will go to Beijing.

Source: Xinhua